My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
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My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country._x000D_ _x000D_ My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.
We have enjoyed so much freedom for so long that we are perhaps in danger of forgetting how much blood it cost to establish the Bill of Rights.
There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
From every mountain side, Let freedom ring.
Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood - the virtues that made America.
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